Re: [OSS] Knowledge of CVS systems

Dear Stefan,
It is really needed to train students and software developers in SO to
understand it. We may have to include this item in our policy section and
training section in our framework of OSS in Vietnam.
Thanks for a good idea and remind
Do Van Loc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Probst" <stefan.probst@opticom.v-nam.net>
To: <locdv@moste.gov.vn>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:09 AM
Subject: [OSS] Knowledge of CVS systems

> Dear All,
>
> now, that we have all that relevant/important people "on board", may I
> repeat my concern of a few weeks ago:
>
> Right now it seems, that there is a number of individuals, companies and
> institutions /taking/ from the FLOSS sources, but it seems to me, that
> nearly nobody in Vietnam /contributes back/ to it. Free Software is about
> "Sharing", which means not only "taking", but also "giving".
>
> There are surely several reasons:
> - language skills (and fears, that the limited ones would not be enough)
> - habits (communicating and giving to absolutely unknown strangers)
> - ...
>
> I wonder, whether one reason is, that people are not used to handle the
> often-used CVS system (see an explanation below)? Sure, the instructions
> can be found in the Net, but - face it - to have somebody explaining it
and
> walking together through the steps is different from reading some
> instructions: Most of what you learn at University could also be read in
> some books ...
>
> If a lack of familiarity with the CVS system is really a reason, then I
> would propose to work with the "education subgroup" of this list on how to
> overcome that problem, e.g. by inviting somebody to travel to some
> Universities etc., stay there for a few days, and teach lecturers and
> students the "HOWTO"...
>
> I would be especially interested in feedback to this question from the
> Universities and those companies who do some OSS programming already.
>
> Best Regards,
> Stefan
>
> Here some info about the CVS:
>
> >About CVS
> >
> >CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a tool used by many software
> >developers to manage changes within their source code tree. CVS provides
> >the means to store not only the current version of a piece of source
code,
> >but a record of all changes (and who made those changes) that have
> >occurred to that source code. Use of CVS is particularly common on
> >projects with multiple developers, since CVS ensures changes made by one
> >developer are not accidentally removed when another developer posts their
> >changes to the source tree.
> >
> >Information about accessing this CVS repository may be found in our
> >document titled, "Basic Introduction to CVS and SourceForge.net (SF.net)
> >Project CVS Services".
> >
> >In order to access a CVS repository, you must install a special piece of
> >software called a CVS client; CVS clients are available for most any
> >operating system. Information about CVS client software may be found in
> >our document titled, "Basic Introduction to CVS and SourceForge.net
> >(SF.net) Project CVS Services".
>
> ...
>
>
>
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